2010英语专业考研报考前(英美文学)摸底测试题

2010英语专业考研报考前（英美文学）摸底测试题

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Ⅰ. British literature. (75 points)

A. Fill out the following blanks. (10 points, 1 for each)

1. ___________ is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel; but whether or not he deserves that honor remains an open question.

2. “If the censure of Yahoo could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain.” This question is selected from _____________.

3. Henry Fielding has been regarded as “________”, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

4. British novel came of age in ________.

5.The Vicar of Wakefield is the only novel of __________, which describes misfortunes falling on the central character and the family.

6. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by ___________ is taken a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard school.

7. Friday is a character in the novel _______________.

8. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, ___________ was the first to introduce rationalism to England.

9. Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in the form of

____________.

10. Auld Lang Syne written by __________ deals with the friendship and has long become a universal parting-song of all the English-speaking countries.

B. Define the following terms. (15 points, 3 for each)

1. The Graveyard School

2. Satire

3. Classicism

4. The Heroic Couplet

5. Meter

C. Multiple Choice. (15 points, 0.5 for each)

1. __________ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A. Genesis A

B. Exodus

C. The Pilgrim’s Progress

D. The Holy War

2. The object of __________ novels was to present a faithful picture of life, “the just

copies of human manners”, with sound teaching woven into their texture, so as to teach them to know themselves, their proper spheres and appropriate manners.

A. John Bunyan‟s

B. Alexander Pope‟s

C. Jonathan Swift‟s

D. Henry Fielding‟s

3. Of all the 18th century novelists, __________ was the first to set out, both in

theory and practic e, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”.

A. Henry Fielding

B. Daniel Defoe

C. John Bunyan

D. Jonathan Swift

4. __________ was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human

wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing.

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

D. Thomas Gray

5. The Rivals and __________ are generally regarded as important links between the

masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.

A. The School for Scandal

B. The Duenna

C. Widowers Houses

D. The Doctor’s Dilemma

6. ___________ is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the

aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.

A. The Rivals

B. Gulliver’s Travels

C. Tom Jones

D. The School for Scandal

7. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, __________ best and most representative

work has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English Poetry.

A. Alexander Pope‟s

B. Thomas Gray‟s

C. Samuel Johnson‟s

D. William Blake‟s

8. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce

__________ to England.

A. rationalism

B. criticism

C. romanticism

D. realism

9. The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate __________.

A. rationality, reason, order and rules

B. return to the ancient classical works

C. inner feelings of individuals

D. universal education

10.An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in __________.

A. heroic couplets

B. English sonnet

C. bland verse

D. Italian sonnet

11.Which of the following comments on Thomas Gray‟s poetry is NOT true?

A. Distorted in word order.

B. Highly artificial in diction.

C. Calculated in rhythm.

D. Light-hearted in tone.

12.In The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great the word “great”is used __________.